It distressed and confused her that the girl should not come to her. ‘I’m determined to find out all about you,
mademoiselle. Just as they reached the eastern outlet of the churchyard—
where the tall elms cast a pleasant shade over the rustic graves—a momentary
stoppage took place. We are very poor, but manage to
squeeze a little happiness out of each day. She was listed for the raid—she was informed it was to be a raid upon the
House of Commons, though no particulars were given her—and told to go alone
to 14, Dexter Street, Westminster, and not to ask any policeman to direct her. She hurried with Jack as fast as she could
to the open door to the passage. Wood's. “Do you mean, aunt,” she asked, “that my father thought I had gone off—with
some man?”
“What else COULD he think? Would any one DREAM you would be so mad
as to go off alone?”
“After—after what had happened the night before?”
“Oh, why raise up old scores? If you could see him this morning, his poor face
as white as a sheet and all cut about with shaving! He was for coming up by the
very first train and looking for you, but I said to him, ‘Wait for the letters,’ and
there, sure enough, was yours. Later Lord Charvill told Jarvis that
it had been precisely the same at the outset. Now, for the cage,
my pretty canary-bird. The old-fashioned dress, with its series
of ruffles and printed flowers, ballooned treacherously, revealing her well-turned
leg in silk stockings, as it snapped against her body as a mould.
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